Here is a more detailed user-targeted description of the database stats
recorder: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Database+Event+Logger
I'm planning on committing this to trunk later today if I don't hear any
objections. It will be disabled by default.
-Eric
Eric Dalquist wrote:
I
I think presenting the stats in visual format using perhaps the google
charts api would be a fantastic addition to uPortal. From my conversations
with Eric, it sounds like one of the concerns is that the database can
quickly grow large if all events are enabled. (Am I understanding the issue
It's too much data as is. This logger is just that ... a logger. All it
does it persist portal events in a nice normalized set of tables. Until
someone writes summarizing and maintenance code we can't enable it
without having to include giant warnings about filling up peoples
databases. As an
I agree with Eric, that it should NOT be enabled by default, until the
appropriate maintenance code to accompany it is also written. The
maintenance code could be a simple quartz job, that truncates the table
after so many (configurable) days. That combined with logging a select
number of
The code has been committed and the wiki page updated. I would
appreciate anyone with a little bit of free time to grab the latest code
from trunk and give this a try. The instructions will likely need some
polishing and the more database we can test it on the better.
-Eric
Eric Dalquist
